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All projects available at github.com/nstrayer/<name>

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See full CV at lindsaysmith.me/cv for more complete list of positions and publications.

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Last updated on 2024-10-03.

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Lindsay Smith

I am a recent graduate from Northern Arizona University with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Mathematics. I am currently earning my Master’s of Science degree through Arizona State University in Program Evaluation and Data Analytics. I am searching for a data science position that allows me to build tools using visualization and machine learning to help people explore and understand their data.

Education

M.S. Program Evaluation and Data Analytics

Phoenix, AZ

Arizona State University

current - 2023

B.S. Mathematics

Flagstaff, AZ

Northern Arizona University

2023 - 2019

  • Minior in Statistics
  • Cum Laude

Selected Positions

Manager, Operations

Flagstaff, AZ

Northern Arizona University

current - 2024

  • Manage hiring for Staff, Faculty, and Student Workers for the College
  • Manage the schedule of classes
  • Supervise Student Support Services and the Dean’s Office Front Desk student workers

Administrative Services Assistant

Flagstaff, AZ

Northern Arizona University

2024 - 2023

  • Maintain computer and equipment inventory
  • Maintain key distribution and building access
  • Provide support to the finance team with hiring and supplemental pay processes

Lead Math Jack

Flagstaff, AZ

Northern Arizona University

2022

  • Supervise incoming Math Jacks, resolve conflicts, and provide support
  • Take on extra responsibility to support upper-level staff
  • Work the front desk in the Lumberjack Mathematics Center

Math Jack

Flagstaff, AZ

Northern Arizona University

2022 - 2020

  • Tutor for MAT 100, MAT 108, MAT 114, & MAT 125 students in an open lab setting
  • TA for various classes listed above
  • Graded daily homework assignments

Front Desk Assistant

Flagstaff, AZ

Northern Arizona University

2022 - 2021

  • Assist students, faculty, and upper-level management as it relates to the Math Department
  • Serve as the point of contact for the Math department
  • Facilitate general building management and order office suppies

Selected Writing

Using AWK and R to Parse 25tb

N/A

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

2019

  • Story of parsing large amounts of genomics data.
  • Provided advice for dealing with data much larger than disk.
  • Reached top of HackerNews.

Multimorbidity Explorer | A shiny app for exploring EHR and biobank data

N/A

RStudio::conf 2019

2019

  • Contributed Poster. Authored with Yaomin Xu.

Taking a network view of EHR and Biobank data to find explainable multivariate patterns

N/A

Vanderbilt Biostatistics Seminar Series

2019

  • University wide seminar series.

Classifying physical activity from smartphone data

N/A

RStudio Tensorflow Blog

2018

  • Walk through of training a convolutional neural network to achieve state of the art recognition of activities from accelerometer data.
  • Contracted article.

The United States of Seasons

N/A

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

2018

  • GIS analysis of weather data to find the most ‘seasonal’ locations in United States
  • Used Bayesian regression methods for smoothing sparse geospatial data.

A year as told by fitbit

N/A

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

2017

  • Analyzing a full years worth of second-level heart rate data from wearable device.
  • Demonstrated visualization-based inference for large data.

MCMC and the case of the spilled seeds

N/A

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

2017

  • Full Bayesian MCMC sampler running in your browser.
  • Coded from scratch in vanilla Javascript.

The Great Student Migration

N/A

The New York Times

2016

  • Most shared and discussed article from the New York Times for August 2016.

Wildfires are Getting Worse, The New York Times

N/A

The New York Times

2016

  • GIS analysis and modeling of fire patterns and trends
  • Data in collaboration with NASA and USGS

An Agent Based Model of Mysis Migration

N/A

International Association of Great Lakes Research Conference

2015

  • Authored with Brian O’Malley, Sture Hansson, and Jason Stockwell.